Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking: Manga for Success

Preface ...... 11
Resilience Is…
Why Aren’t Things Going Well?! ...... 16

01. Why Resilience is Currently Necessary
• Stress Wears the Heart Out ...... 28
• Career Turning Points Are Dangers to the Heart ...... 30
02. What is Resilience?
• Resilience Is… ...... 32
• Three Traits of Someone With High Resilience ...... 33
• Resilience is a Psychological Resource Everyone Has ...... 34
03. Strengthening Resilience
• Three Steps to Strengthen Resilience ...... 36
• Challenges Become Nourishment For Resilience ...... 38
• Resilience Becomes Stronger Through Practice ...... 41

Part 1 Controlling Negative Emotions I See, So I Was Exhausted. ...... 44
01. How to Not be Swayed By Negative Emotions
• Stress Makes the Heart Weaker ...... 60
• Emotions Can Be Controlled ...... 61
• Do Not Seal Off Emotions ...... 62
02. Negative Is Stronger Than Positive
• The Rumination Phenomenon of Emotions ...... 65
• The Positive Brain and the Negative Brain ...... 67
03. Emotions Are Hiding in the Shadows of Problematic Behavior
• The Mechanism of Emotions and Behaviors ...... 70
04. Irritation and Anxiety Are Contagious
• Beware of the Emotional Vampire ...... 73
• Using Emotional Transmission Daily ...... 74
05. The Positive Role That Negative Emotions Have
• Learn How to Control Emotions ...... 76
06. The Three Methods In Controlling Emotions
• Control Your Breathing to Cool Your Mixed Up Emotions ...... 79
• Add Labels to Your Emotions ...... 80
• Don’t Hold On to Your Stress Overnight ...... 83

Part 2 Taming Negative Assumptions
Story How to Hang Out With an Assumption Dog ...... 88
01. What Are Assumptions?
• People Have Tinted Glasses Inside Their Hearts ...... 106
• The Mechanisms of Assumptions And Emotions ...... 107
• In Order to Control Your Emotions ...... 109
02. Taming Assumptions
• The Seven Types of Negative Assumptions ...... 110
• The Righteous Dog (The Should Be Mindset) ...... 111
• The Loser Dog (The Devaluing Mindset) ...... 113
• The Worrywart Dog (The Pessimistic Mindset) ...... 115
• The Abandoning Dog (The Powerless Mindset) ...... 117
• The Apologetic Dog (The Self-Accusing Mindset) ...... 118
• The Criticism Dog (The Mindset of Blaming Others) ...... 120
• The Apathetic Dog (The Irresponsible Mindset) ...... 122
• In Order To Realize Your Assumptions ...... 124
03. Three Ways To Deal With Assumption Dogs
• Dealing With Negative Assumptions ...... 126
• Banish It ...... 126
• Accept It ...... 127
• Training/Taming ...... 127

Part 3 Get Social Support
Is There Someone Who Can Help You? ...... 132
01. Why Are You Unable To Rely On Others?
• The External and Internal Reasons for Inability to Rely On Others ...... 156
• The Three Features of Workplaces That are Not Cooperative ...... 156
• Assumptions Can Hinder Relationships With Others ...... 158
02. Get Social Support
• Building Quality Interpersonal Relationships ...... 160
• Find Five Supporters ...... 161
03. Creating an Organization With High Resilience
• What are the Requirements For a Good Workplace? ...... 164
04. Four Factors in Forming Quality Relationships
• Relationships With Cooperation ...... 166
• Relationships With Respect ...... 166
• Relationships With Trust ...... 168
• Relationships With
Playfulness ...... 169

Part 4 Restoring Your Self-Confidence
In Order to Work With Confidence ...... 172
01. Why Are You Unable to Feel Confident?
• Those Who Are Unable To Take A Step Forward Because They Lack Self-Confidence ...... 186
• What Happens When You Are Unable to Have Self-Confidence ...... 178
• The Reason You Lose Self-Confidence ...... 188
02. The Psychological Resources to Heighten Self-Confidence
• You Can Get Self-Confidence From Increasing
Self-Efficacy ...... 191
• What Is Self-Efficacy? ...... 191
Story
• Self-Efficacy and Resilience ...... 192
CAKECHAN,
TOO.
HOW ABOUT
THINKING
ABOUT WHAT
YOU REALLY
WANT TO
DO?
03. Making a Foundation For Self-Confidence ~How To Raise Your Self-Efficacy~
• Four Factors in Raising Self-Efficacy ...... 194
• What You Need in Order to Tie Accomplishments Into Self-Efficacy...... 195
• How to Handle Failure ...... 197
• Build Up Small Achievements ...... 198
• Examples Increase Confidence ...... 200
• Encouragement Becomes the Source of Self-Confidence ...... 202
• Positive Attitudes Stimulate Self-Confidence ...... 203
• “Places” Where You Can Feel Positive ...... 204
• Self-Efficacy Can Help ...... 205

Part 5 Putting Your Strength Into Good
Use At Work
I’LL…
…DO IT!
What Is My Strength? ...... 208
01. Putting Strength to Good Use And Raising Resilience
• What Is Strength? ...... 220
• Look for Strengths Rather Than Weak Points ...... 221
• Three Ways to Figure Out Your Strengths ...... 221
02. What Is a Rewarding Job?
• The Definition of Working With Resilience ...... 225
• Three Views on Work ...... 226
• Let’s Start With Putting Your Strength to Good Use ...... 228

Conclusion ...... 234